WRI – Choose your emission pathway

The World Resources Institute took the recent IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) to illustrate possible emissions pathways in an infografic Choose Your Future: 4 Possible Emissions Pathways from World Resources Institute (WRI) Learn more about the WRI Find the Fifth IPCC Assemsment Report here.

Scope 2 Accounting – treatment of green power

An increasing number of companies tend to purchase or even generate green power. Today the focus is mainly on green electricity out of renewable sources or considered as low-carbon or „carbon free“ electricity. Despite some clear physical basic conditions it is fact that there are market instruments and technologies out there. These instruments should make…

Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

  Within the  framework for a Single Market for Green Products Initiative the European Union (EU) wants to provide with the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and the Organisational Environmental Footprint (OEF) a range of methods and guides as well as initiatives to prove a products or companies green credentials. To overcome the current stream of sometimes…

Automobilsektor – Nachhaltige Rohstoffe (Studie)

Unter dem Titel „Nachhaltige Rohstoffe für den deutschen Automobilsektor – Herausforderungen und Lösungswege“ veröffentlichen die Herausgeber (Südwind e.V., Collaborating Centre on Substainable Consumption and Production gGmbH (CSCP), Global Nature Fund) eine aktuelle Sicht auf die Nutzung von Rohstoffen im Automobilbau. Dabei wird auch die ökologische und soziale Leitfunktion des Automobilsektors in Deutschland hervorgehoben. Gerade innerhalb…

Green Logistics & Supplier Management im Bereich Automotive

Die Juni-Ausgabe des SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT™ Journal des Institust für Produktionsmanagement (IPM) beschäftigt sich u.a. mit den Themen „Total Supplier Management – Effizientes Risikomanagement entlang globaler Supply Chains“, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Dust, Hochschule Heilbronn und „Green Logistics: Framework zur Steigerung der logistischen Nachhaltigkeit“ , Prof. Dr. Carsten Deckert, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Fröhlich, Cologne Business School (CBS)…